For reality TV fans, the early aughts can be considered somewhat of a golden age. It was a time where anything was possible: Xzibit could mysteriously pop up in your driveway to put a cotton candy machine in your cheap Craigslist car; MTV could tear you out of your bed in the middle of the night and give a future date a blacklight to inspect your embarrassingly messy room; and The Swan, arguably the cruelest reality show ever created, was somehow greenlit.
Meanwhile, in the middle of Ashton Kutcher’s wildly successful original run of MTV’s candid camera prank series, Punk’d, he also producedBeauty and the Geek. Touted as a social experiment rather than a run-of-the-mill reality show, it brought together polar opposites – the geekiest, most socially awkward men casting directors could find and seemingly shallow bombshells – and forced them to work together to complete challenges.
The show’s popularity erupted into international success with offshoots in both the UK and Australia, but not everything was as happy-go-lucky as it seemed on the surface. From alleged stunt casting, to manipulative editing, to a cast member losing his virginity on set, here is the disturbing untold truth of Beauty and the Geek.
Playing a geek is easy if you’re an actor
It’s no secret that reality TV producers know how to pull the juiciest scenes from their subjects. It also helps if one of their subjects is a professional actor. Beauty and the Geek Australia came under fire after “geek” Bendeguz Daniel Devenyi-Botos (above) admitted he was a professional actor who joined the series to help his career. We’re going to guess the “geek” in Beauty and the Geek isn’t referring to theater nerds.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, the mustache-clad reality star studied acting and theater at a number of performing arts schools. Læs videre “The Disturbing Untold Truth Of Beauty And The Geek”